Journal of Beckett Studies Volume 26 Number 2 Edinburgh University Press
Journal of Beckett Studies The Journal of Beckett Studies has been the journal of record for the established and expanding field of Beckett studies for forty years. It has always been blind peer-reviewed and is recognised internationally as a scholarly journal of high standard. Chief Editors Dr Mark Nixon (University of Reading) Professor Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp) Editorial Board Dr Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester) Professor S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University) Professor Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney) Professor Shane Weller (University of Kent) Performance Review Editor Dr Trish McTighe (University of Birmingham) Book Review Editor Dr Ulrika Maude (University of Bristol) Assistant Editor Dr Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp) Advisory Committee Chris Ackerley (University of Otago) Richard Begam (University of Wisconsin) Linda Ben-Zvi (Tel Aviv University) Enoch Brater (University of Michigan) John Calder (Calder Publications Ltd) Bruno Clément (University of Paris, VIII) Steven Connor (University of Cambridge) Thomas Cousineau (Washington College, Maryland) Matthijs Engelberts (University of Amsterdam) Everett C. Frost (Reading) James Knowlson (Founding Editor) (University of Reading) Antoni Libera (Warsaw) J. C. C. Mays (University College, Dublin) Anna McMullan (University of Reading) Peter J. Murphy (Thompson Rivers University) Minako Okamuro (Waseda University) Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University) John Pilling (Former Editor) (University of Reading) The Journal of Beckett Studies gratefully acknowledges the support of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading and the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (part of the research group Literature and Modernity) at the University of Antwerp. This journal is available online at www.euppublishing.com ISSN 0309-5207 eissn 1759-7811 Two issues per year, published in April and September. Published by Edinburgh University Press Ltd, The Tun Holyrood Road, 12(2f) Jackson s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ. Email: journals@eup.ed.ac.uk www.euppublishing.com Journal of Beckett Studies, 2017. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recorded or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency Limited, Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS, UK. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Henry Ling Limited, The Dorset Press, Dorchester
Journal of Beckett Studies Volume 26 Number 2 2017 Edinburgh University Press
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JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES VOLUME 26 NUMBER 2 2017 MARK NIXON AND DIRK VAN HULLE Editorial / v ESSAYS WILLIAM DAVIES A Text Become Provisional: Revisiting The Capital of the Ruins / 169 KIMINORI FUKAYA The Early Beckett s Approach to Reality through a Textual Struggle with Rimbaud / 188 DIRK VAN HULLE AND PIM VERHULST Notes on a Newly Discovered Draft of the Poem Le Petit Sot / 206 JOSH POWELL Sharing her Bewilderment: Not I, Experimentation and the Perception of Speech / 221 ANTHONY CORDINGLEY Samuel Beckett and Édith Fournier Translating the Untranslatable Worstward Ho / 239
iv JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES OBITUARY ELIZABETH BARRY, MATTHEW FELDMAN AND JONATHAN HERON Rosemary Pountney (1937 2016) / 257 BOOK REVIEWS Emily Chester reviews Beckett and Animals, edited by Mary Byden, and Joseph Anderton s Beckett s Creatures: Art of Failure after the Holocaust / 262 Joseph Anderton reviews Staging Beckett in Great Britain, editedby David Tucker and Trish McTighe, Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland, edited by Trish McTighe and David Tucker, and Natka Bianchini s Samuel Beckett s Theatre in America / 272 THEATRE REVIEWS David Clare reviews Beckett s Waiting for Godot, TheDruid Theatre Company, Galway and Dublin / 281 Michael Coffey reviews Beckett s Neither, Shen Wei Dance Arts, New York / 285 Arka Chattopadhyay reviews Beckett s Ohio Impromptu, directed by S. E. Gontarski, Sopot, Poland / 291 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 296